Chapter 2365

Crossing layer upon layer of starry skies, layer upon layer of time, layer upon layer of fate and karma, the gaze of the Longevity Heavenly Sovereign's own light and the cold stare of the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang met, and in this moment it seemed like eternity.

"Tai Shang Da Ri——"

In the Longevity Heavenly Sovereign's small eyes, an expression of utter terror appeared, and without a thought he shattered into countless white papers that scattered and vanished.

Many Emperor Realm cultivators felt their hearts jolt.

At this moment, in their divine soul perception and immortal body awareness, no matter what arts or divine powers they used, they could not see the Longevity Heavenly Sovereign, and even his memories began to gradually blur, a process no human strength could reverse.

Clang!

In the Nine Heavens, a clear and pleasant sword cry echoed.

This sound was like large and small pearls falling on a jade plate, penetrating deep into the cosmic starry sky, deep into time, karma, and fate, a sword cry that transcended the mortal realm.

All Emperor Realm cultivators had a vision arise in their hearts.

Above the azure heavens, the Human Emperor reached out toward the starry sky; though it was clearly happening on the material plane, it also seemed to contain the unfathomable wonder of time and karmic fate.

Everyone saw that these hands seemed to represent the true essence of the sword Dao between heaven and earth—whether flicking or pointing, they flicked open layer upon layer of space, flicked open the barriers of time, searching through past, present, and future, probing within an extremely complex tangle of fate and karma that could not be clearly seen, flicking aside all kinds of obstructions.

Finally, within the flow of time and the tangle of fate and karma, an old man wearing a tattered Daoist robe reappeared.

"Your Majesty Gu Huang, everything can be negotiated——"

The Longevity Heavenly Sovereign let out a sharp, loud cry.

Then it cut off abruptly.

Two pale, slender thumbs and index fingers pinched his throat, silencing all sound.

Boom—

Boom boom boom——

Terrifying spatial storms and temporal turbulence appeared between heaven and earth; a hand pinching the old Daoist's throat returned from beyond the heavens, again entering the Nine Heavens, along the way no longer carefully concealing, no longer cautiously searching, causing vast voids to collapse, rules and karma to shatter.

When the old Daoist was seized and brought into the Nine Heavens, from his body emerged countless karmic threads, connecting in all directions, thick and numerous, numbering in the hundreds of thousands.

The Sect Master of the Harmonious Bliss Dao traced one of these karmic threads from the old Daoist back to its source.

This was a child with fair, tender skin, wearing two sky-high braids and a dudou, who was cheerfully giving a scripture to a girl in a childish voice.

Another karmic thread was a bird, its beak holding a scripture——

Scholars, merchants, officials, birds, great trees, mountain gods——each thread connected to a being similar to the old Daoist, even including beings from past and future.

They were all spreading the new Dharma.

They were all the Longevity Heavenly Sovereign!

"Longevity Heavenly Sovereign!"

Many Emperor Realm cultivators drew a sharp breath.

The hands of the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang withdrew.

In the palace of the Heavenly Pivot, under the gaze of countless Emperor Realm cultivators, an old man in a tattered Daoist robe looked around in terror; on his body, hundreds of thousands of karmic threads transformed into sword Dao chains, binding every single one of the hundreds of thousands of Longevity Heavenly Sovereigns and dragging them into his body, stuffing them all inside.

The surroundings fell silent.

"Your Majesty Gu Huang, fellow Daoists, this old Daoist is merely——"

The Longevity Heavenly Sovereign gave an embarrassed smile.

Clang!

Jiang Ding lightly hooked his finger, and a sword light flashed.

The Longevity Heavenly Sovereign's body stiffened then collapsed, losing its human form and revealing its inner essence.

Appearing before everyone's eyes was indeed a twisted, writhing blood-flesh talisman, upon which countless immortal talismans twisted, exuding a complex, chaotic aura of greed, frenzy, karma, time, space, and more, plus an unknown contaminating force that made onlookers' faces change and their souls feel chilled to the bone.

Many Emperor Realm cultivators instinctively stepped back.

They sensed that if touched by this blood-flesh talisman, their entire immortal bodies would corrode!

Hiss—

Hiss hiss hiss——

This blood-flesh talisman sprouted countless tendrils; space crumbled where they touched, its contaminating power could even infect space, as it offered sacrifices to something in the dark depths.

"This is——the essence of the immortal arts of the emperors of history?"

Far swallowed a mouthful of saliva, feeling extreme danger.

"Yes, it is."

"But this is only the yang talisman; the yin talisman is elsewhere."

Jiang Ding stared at this twisted blood-flesh talisman and said calmly: "The immortal arts of the emperors of history truly contain profound Daoist wisdom, which will greatly advance my《Sun-Annihilation Solar Immortal Scripture》; now, only at most five hundred thousand years remain until the《Cross Immortal Scripture》is achieved."

After so many years of battling, deciphering, the immortal arts of the emperors of history—if he had not died or been defeated, he naturally would not have gained nothing, standing still.

On the contrary, his gains were immense.

As long as the emperors of history cannot kill him, they cannot stop his progress.

"The yin talisman of the emperors of history's immortal arts?"

Far and many Emperor Realm cultivators felt a jolt in their hearts.

"Yes."

"These scoundrels are really strong!"

Jiang Ding looked in a direction and sighed: "The immortal arts of the emperors: creating by reversing the principles of heaven and earth, must have involved multiple forbidden-zone ancient emperors participating, and the creator was even a monstrous genius who shook ancient and modern times."

"I——am far inferior to that."

Inferior.

These words made hearts tremble.

Inferior—what the Human Emperor said as inferior, many Emperor Realm cultivators could clearly understand.

This meant that the Human Emperor judged that if he and the forbidden-zone ancient emperor who created the emperors' immortal arts were placed in the same era, his talent and brilliance would not match that of the forbidden-zone ancient emperor.

This is a precise judgment based on reality.

Even if both sides have the same cultivation level, the same inheritance, and the same resources, the Human Emperor judges that he is probably inferior to this Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperor in talent and brilliance, with no family background or inheritance gap to serve as an excuse.

Of course, this is only a basic judgment.

When actual fighting begins, a general with a sharper, stronger, and larger army is not necessarily guaranteed victory, and a general with a weak army and few soldiers is not necessarily destined to lose or die; war is like this—full of uncertainties, with nothing certain.

"This endless river of time—how many peerless heavenly prodigies has the mortal world actually given birth to?"

"Unimaginable."

"These so-called Imperial Immortal Arts Yin Fu—"

Jiang Ding pondered for a moment, then spoke in terms a cultivator of the Emperor Realm could understand: "When the Imperial Immortal Arts draw upon the fundamental essence of heaven and earth, not everything can be digested. In this process, undigestible things like blood slaughter resentment and heavenly malice are produced, and the Imperial Immortal Arts Yin Fu is the place that stores these wastes."

"Once this Yin Fu detonates, it will form an Immortal Dao black hole, continuously devouring spiritual energy, starlight, and other Immortal Dao spiritual substances, greatly reducing the Immortal Dao foundation of the starry void—"

"This is why the Myriad Laws Ancient Emperor had no choice but to launch a campaign into the Dark Forbidden Zone back then—he had to go."

"If one is unwilling to compromise with or surrender to the Imperial Emperors, then one must launch a campaign."